Elon Musk Says Social Security Database Riddled with Errors, Possible Fraud
Elon Musk has taken to social media platform X to allege significant discrepancies within the Social Security database, suggesting potential widespread errors and even fraud, Fox News reports.
Musk’s post featured a chart detailing the purported number of living individuals in each age bracket above 100, including over 3.9 million listed as between 130 and 139 years old.
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE! Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” he added.
“There are FAR more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history,” Musk wrote.
He also asserted that the Social Security system’s logic is incredibly complex:
“The logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks INSANE. No one person actually knows how it works.”
According to the US Census Bureau, the 2020 census counted over 331 million people in the U.S., with just over 80,000 of them aged 100 or older.
Musk’s allegations have sparked considerable discussion online. Previously, President Donald Trump tapped Musk to spearhead the Department of Government Efficiency, an effort to uncover waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.
